Accession number
PML 196014
Creator
Pocock, Guy Noel, 1880-1955, editor.
Published
London : J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; New York : E.P. Dutton and Co., [1920]
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2014.
Notes
Dylan Thomas's copy, inherited from his sister.
With a frontispiece portrait of Rupert Brooke.
"Additional Poems / The remaining pages of this book are intended for the insertion of new short poems from newspapers, periodicals or new volumes of verse. Select carefully and write neatly."--P. [160].
Library's copy has a bookseller's ticket on front paste-down: D. Williams, The South Wales Book Depot (Carmarthen, Wales).
With a frontispiece portrait of Rupert Brooke.
"Additional Poems / The remaining pages of this book are intended for the insertion of new short poems from newspapers, periodicals or new volumes of verse. Select carefully and write neatly."--P. [160].
Library's copy has a bookseller's ticket on front paste-down: D. Williams, The South Wales Book Depot (Carmarthen, Wales).
Description
159, [1] p., [16] leaves (all blank) : front. (port.) ; 16 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Dylan Thomas's autograph transcription in ink of Yeats's 'A Dream of Death' on p. [160] ; another poem, entitled "To a Distant Candle" but left blank, is signed 'Dylan Marlais' on 1st blank leaf. The poet has also signed Dylan Marlais in pencil on verso of last blank leaf. With ticks and question marks in the table of contents next to poems by Alfred Noyes, Gerald Gould, Walt Whitman, and Robert Graves. Publisher's vignette "This book belongs to ___" printed on front paste-down, inscribed in ink: Nancy Marles Thomas / Xmas 1920.
Provenance
Nancy Marles Thomas; Dylan Thomas; presumably given by the poet to sculptor Ronald Cour (Bonhams sale code 21761, lot 219).
Binding
Publisher's full green cloth.
Classification
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